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The Shape of Obamacare’s Economy
Opinion -Consumer Power Report #406 The White House just undermined everyone who was speaking from its talking points sheet over the past week on the CBO analysis by reacting as if all the criticisms of Obamacare’s effect on labor markets are true. [http://vlt. -
The CBO Outlines How Obamacare Is Hurting Workers
Opinion -Consumer Power Report #405 The Congressional Budget Office’s latest report includes some astounding evidence of how Obamacare is impacting the labor market in a negative way. -
The Latest on the Republican Alternative to Obamacare
Opinion -Consumer Power Report #404 The latest post-Obamacare reform proposal, put forward yesterday by Senators Tom Coburn, Richard Burr, and Orrin Hatch, is likely to become the Obamacare alternative from the perspective of Republican Senate candidates and -
Oregon’s Obamacare Disaster
Opinion -Consumer Power Report #403 Oregon’s dedication to Obamacare has been complete and total since the law passed, with Democratic Gov. John Kitzhaber seeking to put the state front and center in developing an Obamacare exchange. -
Obamacare Isn’t Getting the Young People It Needs to Succeed
Opinion -Consumer Power Report #402 The latest analysis of the signups for Obamacare reveal the risk pool is far older and sicker than supporters had hoped, with young people lagging dramatically in signups. -
With Obamacare’s Reality, Time to Spread the Blame
Opinion -Consumer Power Report #401 This New York Times piece on canceled policies for Big Apple professionals contains a doozy of a line: Many in New York’s professional and cultural elite have long supported President Obama’s health care plan. -
If You Like Your Drugs, Can You Keep Them?
Opinion -Consumer Power Report #400One of the major sources of concern for those within Obamacare’s new exchange plans is a simple, problematic question: If you like your prescription drugs, can you keep them? -
The White House Has the Worst Cyber Monday Ever
Opinion -Consumer Power Report #399The White House promised the problems with the federal health insurance exchange would be solved by November 30. That day having arrived and passed, now things should be working just swimmingly. Except they aren’t. At all. -
The Latest Obamacare Delay Is the Most Politically Motivated One Yet
Opinion -Consumer Power Report #398I can’t stop laughing at this latest Obamacare delay, the most brazenly political one yet: kicking the can to two weeks after the midterm elections instead of two weeks before. -
Obamacare Is the Dividing Line of Obama’s Presidency
Opinion -Consumer Power Report #397Should President Barack Obama fail in his effort to fix the problems with his signature domestic policy, Thursday’s press conference should serve as a dividing line: there is the presidency before it, and there is the after. -
Obamacare Needs a Solution Beyond “Sorry”
Opinion -Consumer Power Report #396Presidential apologies are a rare thing, but last week brought us an apology for the failed rollout of Obama’s signature policy. -
What Should Republicans Do About Obamacare’s Failed Launch?
Opinion -Consumer Power Report #395What should Capitol Hill Republicans do about Obamacare’s failed launch? Currently, they’re backing away slowly. -
The President’s Big Lie
Opinion -Consumer Power Report #394Yesterday, NBC News ran with a blockbuster report: The Obama administration knew “if you like your plan you can keep it” was a lie. -
A Surge of the Best and Brightest to Save Obamacare
Opinion -Consumer Power Report #393President Obama and the White House are swinging into campaign mode on his health care law today, with a Rose Garden event following multiple defensive Sunday appearances, announcements of changes to Obamacare’s homepage, and an -
The Third World Exchanges
Opinion -Consumer Power Report #392Why aren’t the Obamacare exchanges working? “We’ve known since at least February that the exchanges were looking shaky. There were Chao’s comments at the insurer conference. -
The Obamacare Exchange Trainwreck
Opinion -Consumer Power Report #391The Obamacare exchange trainwreck isn’t about traffic. One possible cause of the problems is that hitting “apply” on HealthCare. -
Obamacare’s Lowered Expectations
Opinion -Consumer Power Report #390On the eve of Obamacare’s launch, the White House is lowering expectations for it, downplaying their assumptions for signups and emphasizing this won’t be a launch so much as the start of a conversation with the American people, -
Obamacare’s Moment of Truth
Opinion -Consumer Power Report #389For much of the past four years, Americans who believe in freedom have fought tooth and nail against first the passage, and then the implementation of President Barack Obama’s health care law. -
What’s Next for Obamacare’s Exchanges?
Opinion -Consumer Power Report #388What’s Next for Obamacare’s Exchanges?We’re 22 days away from the launch of Obamacare’s exchanges, and here are three strands of activity around them that indicate concerns for their future. -
Just One in Four Young Americans Know About Obamacare
Opinion -Consumer Power Report #387This Commonwealth Fund study should be very worrisome to supporters of President Barack Obama’s law: Just one in four 19- to 29-year-olds is even aware of Obamacare’s exchanges. -
The Compassionate Conservative Medicaid Push
Opinion -Consumer Power Report #386It’s worth reading Neil King’s profile of Gov. John Kasich, who’s rapidly become Obamacare’s biggest Republican cheerleader after Gov. -
Concern Rises Among Obamacare Implementers
Opinion -Consumer Power Report #385This past week I attended and spoke at the Colorado Health Symposium. -
Congress’s Dubious Obamacare Exemption
Opinion -Consumer Power Report #384Technically, the issues with Congressional staff subsidies within the health insurance exchange market is a special consideration under the law’s requirements, so it’s not exactly a waiver – but either way, the Obama -
Tactics and Defunding Obamacare
Opinion -Consumer Power Report #383We are seeing a tactical failure on the part of Republicans in Congress when it comes to the most recent push to defund Obamacare. Witness the reaction of Sen.
